Marne Torch II
was launched on 15 September 2007 in the Hawr Rajab area. Supported by 700 Iraqis from the newly created Sons Of Iraq group from Arab Jabour, Coalition forces continued their push along the west bank of the Tigris river, killing or capturing 250 insurgents, destroying 12 boats being used by the insurgents to funnel weapons into Baghdad and uncovering 40 weapons caches, often with tips from the Sons of Iraq.
Coalition forces also established new patrol bases in Arab Jabour, which allowed them to push further south into insurgent sanctuaries in future operations as well as allow Iraqis to feel secure enough to come forward and volunteer for the awakening movements.
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“I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.”
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